<p>Anybody ever have 'em?
I thankfully don't this year but last year my honors english teacher spent 20 minutes from when the bell rang to "get ready" for class, and we usually never did anything remotely useful for more than 10 minutes per class.</p>
<p>I’ve had at least 2 at every school I’ve been to. That means 2 class periods wasted, where I could have been self-studying the crap myself, but instead had to waste my time there.</p>
<p>So yeah. I hate it when teachers don’t do their job.</p>
<p>The one’s I’ve had have been really fun teachers that talk about/do random stuff during class
e.g.
Chemistry teacher quoting “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
English Teacher showing us “Apocalypto”</p>
<p>My biology teacher and chemistry teacher. The biology teacher didn’t show up…ever lol, we had substitutes all year. My chemistry teach was on medical leave for 5 months, so again, we had substitutes:/</p>
<p>even if your teacher doesn’t teach your textbook usually will,
so if you read the chapter before the test and do the homeworks,
you can usually learn a lot anyway,
and probably get a 5 on the ap test if it’s an ap class</p>
<p>remember even if the teacher doesn’t teach
being in a class still gives you an advantage over not being in a class
because classes provide deadlines;
of course you may need to be ahead of their deadlines
if the teacher is covering things absurdly slowly,
but generally if you follow their test schedule
you should be fine for learning stuff</p>
<p>unless of course they don’t give tests.
then you’re really screwed…
but then i guess you just make up deadlines yourself</p>
<p>I have 2 of those types of teachers this year, and they are NOt fun. 1 is an AP course, the other an Honors course. The Honors teacher generally uses the textbook, but the AP teacher refuses too, and we have her self-made sheets. Just like how great athletes sometimes are terrible coaches/GMs, great mathematicians may make horrible teachers :(</p>
<p>Oh yeah, 1 test the entire year so far in an AP class. Yep, that is reeeeally good teaching.</p>
<p>I have them now. they suck but it feels like there’s nothing you can do.</p>
<p>worse are the teachers that don’t teach but grade on favorites. like the teachers who try to be all buddy-buddy with the class and who ever kisses ass the most gets an A.</p>
<p>Bio.</p>
<p>Seriously haven’t learned a single thing in that class. I do well on the tests because I study on my own. He talks about random things the entire class period not even relevant to the class</p>
<p>Lol teachers who don’t teach…
there’s an AP Psych teacher at my school who hardly teaches. He gets test scores of 1’s and 2’s, a few 3’s and the occasional 4.
I was the only one to get a 5, and I didn’t take the class. XD</p>
<p>This pretty much describes half of my high school life.</p>
<p>It was the worse with my AP English Language teacher. In the end, I didn’t even take that exam. English is my weakest subject and it’s not exactly something you can teach yourself, and after we did a mere four timed writings the entire year, I knew I would fail. Half of my class who did take the exam failed it.</p>
<p>Two this year. Hate it. You just have to realize that these teachers were the people slipping into some crappy college with a C average. You are probably smarter than them.</p>
<p>My AP English teacher last year didn’t teach.</p>
<p>In AP World History this year, the only thing we do is go over homework and watch a 40 minute film once a quarter. I hate it so much. I took the SAT II before I took the class, and my score there indicates I would almost definitely get a 5, so I have no reason to go to such a worthless class. My classmates are uninterested and not exactly the brightest crayons in the box. Eg: on the first test last quarter, over half the class got less than 50%. The teacher lets anyone into the class even though it’s AP, which obviously isn’t working in the students’ favor. As an example of how low “anyone” can get, my friend who is ranked 316/321 is in the other bell. I’m all for giving people chances, but it’s not fair to just let them fail.</p>
<p>unless you count assigning homework as teaching, I almost never have a teaching teacher (I don’t count reading from a powerpoint teaching because I could do the same thing)</p>
<p>Geoffs - what kind of school do you go to where all of your teachers are “modern” enough to use powerpoint? One of my teachers barely even understands powerschool! lol</p>
<p>My biology/anatomy teacher is THE WORST ever at my school. We spend about 1/4 of the school year watching “educational” videos while she plays computer chess.</p>
<p>It’s no fun when you get screwed over for an AP class and get such a teacher (Hint: this year). I had teacher like that for an honors math last year, who never taught us anything just b/c for the first few tests, we did pretty “okay”. So, he just assumed we were bestowed with this natural intelligence, therefore he didn’t feel the need to teach for the rest of the year. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, the material got much harder and more people went down in grades. He did nothing about it. The whole final was a disaster - it was literally on one chapter in the textbook and he told us to study everything but that chapter. I pretty much got screwed over with my GPA.</p>
<p>I’m glad he found his purpose in his professional life: to share his wonderful collection of sexual innuendos for a whole 60 minute block on a daily basis and occasionally check out and hit girls to prove that, in fact, there are adults, who manage to somehow slide right in the American education system, that lack more maturity than children themselves.</p>
<p>Calculus. The woman literally spent the period knitting…she would walk in, write an assignment on the board, and then sit at her desk and knit!</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Haha, that sucks. Especially for calculus. </p>
<p>For me… I would have to say my seventh grade history teacher. Other than that, all my teachers seem fair.</p>
<p>Yess, I have a health teacher like that. We spent the entire period talking about what “Poker Face” really meant…</p>
<p>^ ■■■■■. what did the class decide :p</p>